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Wedding piano pieces

Music often heard at weddings, to read at the keyboard: Pachelbel's Canon in D and the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba for the walk in, Amazing Grace, Spring from Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Bach's Prelude in C during the ceremony, the Ode to Joy for the walk out and the Blue Danube for a first waltz. Each piece has easier versions made from the score itself (the right-hand melody alone, then with left-hand roots), so you can print one you'll play well on the day.

Pieces

8

Levels

2 to 4

Key signatures

2 flats to 3 sharps

Length

16 to 89 bars

Level 2

A tune over a simple left hand, mostly in one hand position. Minuets, carols, Ode to Joy, Czerny's first studies.

• Ode to Joy
  Ludwig van Beethoven no sharps or flats, 4/4, 16 bars
• Spring, from The Four Seasons (simple arrangement)
  Antonio Vivaldi 3 sharps, 4/4, 27 bars
• The Blue Danube (theme)
  Johann Strauss II no sharps or flats, 3/4, 32 bars

Level 3

Both hands busy, the hand moves around, a sharp or flat or two. Most of the Notebook minuets, sonatinas, The Entertainer.

• Canon in D
  Johann Pachelbel 2 sharps, 4/4, 33 bars
• Spring, from The Four Seasons
  Antonio Vivaldi 2 sharps, 4/4, 40 bars
• Amazing Grace
  Traditional 1 sharp, 3/4, 87 bars

Level 4

Real independence between the hands and more accidentals. Bach's inventions and little preludes, Für Elise, Chopin's easier preludes.

• Prelude in C, BWV 846
  Johann Sebastian Bach no sharps or flats, 4/4, 35 bars
• The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
  George Frideric Handel 2 flats, 4/4, 89 bars

Open a piece to print any of its versions free, or to play it at your MIDI keyboard with every note marked. New to reading? The level 2 sight-reading exercises are a good warm-up.